Review: PNY Verto GeForce4 Ti4400

We'll start with Aquamark, a DirectX 8.0 based benchmark that loves programmable shader hardware to run well. NV25 should excel here.



The PNY does well here on the AT7 just edging the MSI on the 8K3A in raw terms but identical on a real world scale. Ti500 GeForce3 keeps up well here due mostly to the low speed host processor. In Aquamark, the cards on test spend a fair bit of time waiting on new scene data from the host processor and memory subsystem so the performance bunches up like you'll see in the graphs to come with other benchmarks with the PNY offering 'generic' NV25 performance in part due to the comparatively slow test platform.

3DMark 2001 SE should tell a similar story with close performance to the MSI on the 8K3A. Traditionally, even on the base platform, NV25 shows NV20 how it's done so look for close performance to the MSI and a sound victory over Ti500.



There's 20 marks between MSI/8K3A and PNY/AT7, even across 2 driver versions. This tells us a few things. Performance from 27.42 to 28.80 on the driver side of things is very solid for a start so kudos to NVIDIA for yet another good leaked release. Secondly we are slightly CPU limited here with the XP1500 and also slight memory bandwidth limited since 133:166 on both 8K3A and AT7 offer improved 3DMark 2001 SE performance.

Ti4400 and the PNY is more than a match for the test hardware here and it really needs a faster platform to take full advantage of its massive performance. No fault of PNY's, just the reviewers! Strong performance so far for sure.

Onto the Serious Sam 2 and Quake3 results!